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STATUS QUOtes — 20230730

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.” — Arab Proverb

“The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.” — Eric Hoffer

“Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.” — Bertolt Brecht

“I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.” — Sylvia Boorstein

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20211001

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“Today’s two days. Handle one day at a time, but plan for two, as tomorrow will become yesterday.” — Joseph Cubby

“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.” — Hippocrates

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.” — Eric Hoffer

“Everybody hates me because I’m so universally liked.” — Peter de Vries

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210411

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, and yet the same.” — Anne Frank

“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” — Eric Hoffer

“Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.” — Henry Ford II

“If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.” — Will Durant

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200813

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

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“Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

“America is not about us versus them. It’s about We the people! And in this moment, we must all speak truth about what’s happening. Seek truth, speak truth and fight for the truth.” — Kamala Harris

“Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.” — Eric Hoffer

“Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will.” — Al McGuire

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200510

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“A hypocrite is a person who–but who isn’t.” — Don Marquis

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.” —  Eric Hoffer

“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.” — Carl Burns

“You aren’t famous until my mother has heard of you.” — Jay Leno

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190214

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“The heart wants who the heart wants. We can’t help that.” — Abbi Glines

“I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live… More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.” — Robert A. Ward

“Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.” — Eric Hoffer

“I was going to join the debating team, but somebody talked me out of it.” — Stewart Francis

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170324

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“To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.” — Eric Hoffer

“I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.” — Lech Walesa

“When the tongue is silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.” — Rumi

“I had one guy at a gas station in New York say to me, ‘Hey, you look like that Hugh Grant… no offense.’” — Hugh Grant

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20161029

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“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert G. Ingersoll

“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.” — Zig Ziglar

“The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.” — Eric Hoffer

“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” — Patrick Young

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150830

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“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.” — Robert Brault

“The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but it still has to be mowed.” — Anonymous

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150816

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“When the character of a person is not clear to you, look at their friends.” — Japanese Proverb

“Don’t ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.” — Lou Holtz

We are not as likely to change when we see the light as when we feel the heat.[ed]” — Eric Hoffer

“We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog and all the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?” — John Grogan

 

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